If you do not desire imposing extra injury to your tree - I highly suggest
reading this book.
And do not use wound dressing.
Once you have read it you will be able to answer your own question.
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/TPRUNING.html

You also would be wise to offer the tree other treatments that address their
requirements.
This book would help someone understand many treatments.
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/MARBOR.html

Sincerely,

John A. Keslick, Jr.
Beware of so-called TREE EXPERTS who do not understand TREE BIOLOGY!
www.treedictionary.com

http://mercury.ccil.org/~treeman/
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us
that we are not the boss.
Some people will buy products they do not understand and not buy books that
will give them understanding.

KICK RICK SANTORUM OUT IN 2006!
Why? See his score card here
http://capwiz.com/lcv/dbq/vote_info/...=&azip=19 380

Persephone wrote in message
...
This is So.Calif coastal.

I have let my sun fuschias get out of hand.

Lots of branches crossing; little "threads" from dead blooms, in
short, a mess.

Rather than get in there and fiddle with all this, which would take
forever, am wondering whether I could just cut back to a few trunks
and wait for plants to come back.

(I have done this repeatedly with a "regular" fuschia when it got too
long & droopy, and it always came back. But the configuration of this
fuschia is quite different from the tangled mess of the sun fuschias.)

Any experience/input on this?

Persephone